ACAMS CGSS Certified Global Sanctions Specialist Online Training
ACAMS CGSS Online Training
The questions for CGSS were last updated at May 10,2025.
- Exam Code: CGSS
- Exam Name: Certified Global Sanctions Specialist
- Certification Provider: ACAMS
- Latest update: May 10,2025
Which of the following schemes demonstrates unilateral coercive measures that have a negative effect on the basic means of survival?
- A . Immunity of ESC-rights to economic sanctions.
- B . Human rights objectives.
- C . The friction of international law.
- D . Impact of international human rights law.
- E . The right to impose financial sanctions.
Which of the following schemes demonstrates unilateral coercive measures that have a negative effect on the basic means of survival?
- A . Immunity of ESC-rights to economic sanctions.
- B . Human rights objectives.
- C . The friction of international law.
- D . Impact of international human rights law.
- E . The right to impose financial sanctions.
Which of the following schemes demonstrates unilateral coercive measures that have a negative effect on the basic means of survival?
- A . Immunity of ESC-rights to economic sanctions.
- B . Human rights objectives.
- C . The friction of international law.
- D . Impact of international human rights law.
- E . The right to impose financial sanctions.
Economic sanctions are most likely to accomplish substantial objectives when:
- A . The target is least reliant on the sender.
- B . The target is more reliant on the sender than the sender on the target.
- C . The sender is more reliant on the target than the target on the sender.
- D . The sender is more reliant on the target than the target on the sender.
- E . Both are equally dependent on each other.
Which exogenous events sporadically derailed the changes in general of punishing Cuba?
- A . Democratic presidential nomination
- B . Capture by Iranian-backed terrorists of US hostages
- C . Burglar arrest at the Democratic National Committee office
- D . Cuban air force shooting down US aircraft
- E . Competition over Florida’s electoral votes in the 1992 presidential election
According to OFSI, how long does it typically take to get a license?
- A . One week
- B . Two weeks
- C . Three weeks
- D . Four weeks
- E . Up to two months
Economic sanctions are typically conceived of as foreign policy tools aimed at influencing another nation, they are a type of coercive diplomacy.
What is coercive diplomacy generally defined as?
- A . Forceful persuasion
- B . Public announcement
- C . An effort to use some sort of coercion to stop another nation’s actions
- D . Decision made by voting
- E . An effort to amend a certain law
There has been considerable debate on who, and what agencies, should undertake assessments of the humanitarian implications of sanctions, especially when the sanctions are imposed by which of the following?
- A . National Humanitarian Organization
- B . International Labour Organization
- C . World Health Organization
- D . The United Nations
- E . All of the above
Why threatening to change the exchange pattern in an existing economic relationship is often insufficient to guarantee the power of negotiation between states?
- A . It may impact the raw material needed for manufacturing products.
- B . The sender can derive political leverage from the target’s dependence on the gains from a trading relationship
- C . The sender must be willing to sacrifice some of its gains from trade
- D . It will domestically impact the sender economy
- E . If an exchange is taking place between two rational economic actors, then the terms of exchange can be assumed to be Pareto optimal
What happened when the Council applied its first sanctions regime, against the illegal white minority regime in Southern Rhodesia?
- A . The council neglected both Articles 39 and 41.
- B . The council made a determination of the type envisaged by both Article 39 and 41.
- C . The Council has discontinued acknowledging Article 39.
- D . The Council has tended not to invoke both Articles 39 and 41.
- E . It expressly invoked both Articles 39 and 41 of the Council as the basis for its action.